Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, South Korea, 2013.

ABSTRACT: During 2013, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome was diagnosed in 35 persons in South Korea. Environmental temperature probably affected the monthly and regional distribution of case-patients within the country. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the isolates from Korea were closely related to isolates from China and Japan.

SUBMITTER: Park SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4214315 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature